Example sentences of "[noun] as they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only a short distance and Paula spotted the Colombi as they turned a corner . |
| 2 | It is at times like this when people begin to lose the true principles of religion as they become too involved and so wars begin . |
| 3 | Holmes scored twice , the second another solo effort , while Shane Tibbetts and Gander both showed a turn of speed as they increase the try tally . |
| 4 | Like a ride in a big dipper , he felt the floor pushing up at him , gathering speed as they climbed a wave . |
| 5 | All shale and weeds and winds that picked up speed as they swooped in off the ocean , this strip of barren land prepared you for the final desolation of the Crumbles . |
| 6 | Burkett observed that money could even buy speed as they swung the precisely crafted oars through the beautifully modelled oarlocks . |
| 7 | Then Julius reduced speed as they approached another small village . |
| 8 | Likely contributing factors are that people fail to recognise , and to compensate for insidious deterioration of vision , hearing and decision speed as they age . |
| 9 | Clearly , parents generally must welcome the news that cuddling is not only nice but necessary ; perhaps , however , we should spare a compassionate thought once more for the intellectual mothers of the thirties , whose sufferings as they tried to be ‘ good ’ mothers are now repeated in the knowledge that all their efforts only led them to be ‘ bad ’ mothers : as one of our correspondents added , ‘ Here is Bowlby , still out to make us feel guilty — about our rejection of the children we loved but were not allowed to love . ’ |
| 10 | Join Axel and Blaze for more gob-smacking action as they again take on the hordes of Mr Big . |
| 11 | A party of puffins had to take evasive action as they nearly flew into the side of the ship . |
| 12 | If this is correct , it may be asked why it is necessary to deal with the established , nominate torts at all , to which one can only respond that until the limits of the general tort are clearly established plaintiffs are likely to rely upon as many causes of action as they can , even though from our point of view it is untidy to have two or more torts rather than one . |
| 13 | 18–1–1915 The Session had under consideration the question of the running of the public motor bus for pleasure on the Sabbath Day on certain occasions last summer , and the probability that such facilities may be increased this year , and instructed the Moderator to bring the matter to the notice of the Presbytery , with a View to the Presbytery taking such action as they may deem advisable to prevent such encroachment of the Lord 's Day . |
| 14 | They took such action as they could to prevent further distribution . |
| 15 | She wanted a church wedding with as many of the trimmings as they could possibly afford . |
| 16 | A court should now consider the effect of the provocation on ‘ a person having the power of self-control to be expected of an ordinary person of the sex and age of the accused , but in other respects sharing such of the accused 's characteristics as they think would affect the gravity of the provocation to him ’ . |
| 17 | They arrived in separate motorcades and barely exchanged a glance as they walked across the tarmac . |
| 18 | They 'd drawn the odd inquisitive glance as they 'd entered the dining-room of the Shelbourne , but Mahoney had been convinced that was because of the way Donna looked . |
| 19 | He gave the pair a friendly glance as they walked towards the riverside . |
| 20 | The collection is certainly an asset to any University , and many will now give the walls a second glance as they rush on to lectures and seminars . |
| 21 | Erm the economic development unit of the borough , Mr Allenby , should know more about it than me , but they have done studies of the firms in Harrogate that can be expected to seek relocation within the borough as they sort themselves out over the next five years , and erm their own calculations for the next five years is more than the county 's whole calculation for the next fifteen years , which suggested to us again that there was a problem about the understanding that the county had on the matter of relocations within Harrogate compared with what was going on locally . |
| 22 | There 's nothing like a good bed , ’ said Nessie O'Neil to her daughter Nellie as they made up the bed in the box bedroom at Ballytreabhair Farm . |
| 23 | And I doubt that this time around Arab public opinion will separate the action of Western governments so clearly from Western peoples as they seemed able to do after Suez . |
| 24 | The only signs of fish life at that time on the glassy surface of the mere were the odd shower of fry as they all leapt out as one . |
| 25 | Often , the initial rapid rate of flow decreases , and then the level of the lava in the canal drops , leaving the banks , or levees as they are called , standing up high and dry like walls . |
| 26 | Presumably the washed-up film hoofer and the prima ballerina are thinking about each other as a preliminary to working together , falling in love and starting a bright new phase of their respective careers together ; and no doubt their movements ‘ unconsciously ’ fall into a complementary rhythm as they dance to the same music . |
| 27 | Protests by hundreds of Dutch , Scandinavian , West German and British people fell on deaf ears as they were turned away . |
| 28 | That was music to their ears as they counted up to twenty-two explosions . |
| 29 | The uncles and my father , jolly and unsuspecting after an evening 's celebrations , blundered in with their sacks of bounty ; the tins and cutlery crashed round their ears as they pushed the door open . |
| 30 | The temporary molars , or caps as they are often called , usually present no problems and are relatively soft . |